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So I would forgive her for pronouncing sau - na the same as Braun and Audi.
As did I. I may have mangled my meaning, but that is how the word should be pronounced, apparently. The Finnish au dipthong is the same as in German, it would seem.
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There was a national news broadcast on which the announcer used the word "intricacies" with the accent on "tric." Me, I have trouble with the word "pious" - I think of it as rhyming with "see us," but I've heard it with a long i as well. Is my pronunciation maybe an alternate pronunciation, or am I just wrong? 
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You did just fine Max. I mangled my posts something fierce.for pronouncing sau - na the same as Braun and Audi.
"""As did I. I may have mangled my meaning, but that is how the word should be pronounced, apparently. The Finnish au dipthong is the same as in German, it would seem."""
This is exactly what I was trying to say-----I am so sorry. I also want to say that many times people are not so tolerant. "Honey attracts more flies than vinegar" I have lots of honey, but it seems it is never in the right place at the right time!!!!
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I would make it rhyme with "fly us". Pie-us. (Hard to spell phonetically.)
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bikermom says, "And then there is the Russian Alphabet---totally unique. "
Not entirely, you know. I learnt the cyrillic alphbet some years ago and was amazed, when I was in Islington, London to find myself reading, without much difficulty, the words embazoned on the side of a van parked there. It belonged to a Greek shop, of which, in that quarter of London, there are many.
It was the Greek Missionaries who introduced a written language to Russia, back in mediæval times, applying the Greek alphabet to the spoken Russian. They had to invent a few symbols for sounds used in Russia but not in Greece. The alphabet is named cyrillic after St Cyril (pronounced with a K-sound, not an S), although it was originaly called glagolytic (and I can't for the life of me think why - but someone out there will know!)
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pronounced with a K-sound, not an S
Do you mean this is true of cyrillic, as well as the blessed saint?
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intricacies
You just hit on another of my betes noirs, the word "applicable". How many AWADers make this "apPLICKabel" and how many (like me) "AP-plicable"?
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So Tovarich Uchitel gave me to understand 
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I think I usually say apPLICable. I think I hear it more than I say it, though, and I'm not really sure how I say it.
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